The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-13
Wesleyan Female College-Industrial
Education.

The addition of stenography, typewriting
and telegraphy to the curriculum OF Wes-
leyan Female College, mentioned some time
ago in these columns, has been made and
the teachers in these departments secured.
Miss Annie Hyar, of Oxford, but more
recently of Atlanta, will be in charge of
the stenography and typewriting depart
ment.
Miss Lizzie w. Russ, of Butler, will have
charge of the telegraphy department.
Miss Emily Allen will continue in charge
of the bookkeeping department.
These young ladies come to the college
with the strongest Endorsement of their
competency
The college term begins Oct 5, and the
prospects are exceedingly bright for larger
attendance than ever before.
Below will be found card from DR.. w.
c. Bass on this subject:
The management of the Wesleyan Female
College have for a year been agitating the sub
iect of industrial education for girls, by which
they may be fitted for useful and remunerative
positions
1t is with great satisfaction that we are en-
abled to announce that suitable teachers have
been secured, and that a beginning will be made
in October in several important branches of
practical education
An accomplished lady will continue to give
instruction in bookkeeping, that branch of
SUutly having Deen taught IN Ine cOlIege Tor sew
eral years. The single and double entry systems
will be taught according to the best methods,
so that a faithful student may be qualified to
take charge of set of books after one years
course of training.
The services of an intelligent and accom-
plished lady have been secured for the depart
ment of stenography and typewriting This
lady has had experience in an Office and has the
intelligence and skill to make her a successful
teacher of this now important branch of prac-
teal education.
The art of telegraphy will also be introduced,
and we are happy to state that we have been
fortunate in securing the services of an accom-
plished young woman who has been a practical
operator in the service of the Western Union
| Telegraph Company, and who has the cordial
Endorsement of the officers of that great organi
| cation.
We expect to make beginning and good
| beginning, and we hope to meet with encour
agement in this effort to aid our girls to become
| Self-supportng and independent.
| The cost will be merely nominal, not sufficient
| to meet our expense unless the patronage is
| liberal. Not more than one-fourth the usual
charges for such instruction to pupils pursuing
| college studies.
| We are glad to see that other schools for girls
are moving in the same direction, and we trust
| the time is near at hand when the practical arts
| suitable for girls will form part of the cur
| ricula of every female college.
| The Wesleyan, as the oldest, aims to be the
youngest in vigorous and progressive methods
and our aim will be to make her as distinguished
| in practical education as she has always been In
| science and letters.
The girls of Macon will enjoy rare oppor
tunity of beginning studies which will be of rare
| advantage to them in life. No girl can forecast
sufficiently to tell her future needs, but the his
| tory of hundreds of Southern women, born tc
| wealth, but now poor, and struggling for their
| daily bread in the humblest modes of toll, is a
warning to every girl, whatever her present
prospect in life, to make provision for exigen
| cies that may arise,
| Every girl that comes to the college, who is
| suitably qualified, may have the opportunity ir
| a year to acquire sufficient knowledge in some
| particular art which may prove an invaluable
| help to her in the future.
| We write these lines simply to give information
| to the public that we will be prepared to furnish
at the most economical rates good advantages
housekeeping, stenography, typewriting and
| telegraphy.
| OF course, in the other departments of higher
| education, it is not necessary to add word
| Fifty years of successful work and hundreds OF
| splendid women educated here would be an in
| dorsement of all that might be written.
| W. G.. BASS, President
| Macon, Ga, Sept. o, 1887.